RE: Hive Is Not Dying

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RE: Hive Is Not Dying

valued-customer in LeoFinance • 8 months ago

"...can be accessed."

Can you code a front end? I can't. 99.999% of society cannot. Despite I love Peakd, it also facilitates censorship that can only be surmounted by (highly competent) coders. DV's are censorship. That's why they work to prevent and eliminate spam, scams, and plagiarism. They're taxes, and taxation has demonstrated capacity to prevent autonomy. Opinion flagging has blatantly worked to chase off a vibrant community that threatened the capture of the rewards pool by the oligarchy, and the incompetence of people to pierce the veil of code that keeps the secrets of profiteers remains sufficient to that purpose.

Were Hive not a plutocracy, it could solve that censorship issue, but it is, and can't, because it's owner won't relinquish it's possession. Decentralization of governance cannot be delivered by a plutocracy. @ned proposed a system to use oracles and 1a1v to surmount plutocratic control of governance, but we saw what happened to @ned. He took the money and ran.

8 months ago in LeoFinance by valued-customer

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taskmaster4450le 8 months ago

Can you code a front end?

No but there are plenty who can. And there are other options. I dont use ecency but Leo doesint hide posts or comments based upon Hive voting. In fact, it does nothing with them.

And 3Speak doesnt censor videos to my knowledge. Maybe they are doing things on the back end I dont know about but I think anyone can post whatever they want. Would it apply if something such as porn or really racist ranks stay up? I cant answer if they would take it down or not.

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valued-customer 7 months ago

I actually misstated the facts above. Hive censorship cannot be mitigated by code, unless code that eliminates the ability to tax forthright speech is implemented. The ability to censor spam, scams, and plagiarism (may be) is necessary to Hive, and this makes censoring free speech almost impossible to prevent.

It doesn't matter at all that the information persists. Censorship through financial taxation is one of the most effective tools to control populations that has ever been created, and DV's on Hive well demonstrate that competence.

I apologize for my dull-wittedness. I am exemplary of the dull-witted all too often.

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